How to Use gopher in a Sentence

gopher

noun

• The holes also are too small for gophers, moles and ground squirrels.
  — Joan Morris, The Mercury News, 29 Jan. 2024
• Most people have never heard of, let alone seen, a dusky gopher frog.
  — Tate Watkins, National Review, 29 Oct. 2021
• There are a few culprits that could be doing this – gophers, voles or mice.
  — oregonlive, 24 June 2023
• The gophers and the weeds have moved in, and scores of grave markers are falling apart.
  — Steve Rubenstein, SFChronicle.com, 16 Oct. 2019
• Hill could yet emerge if Fleener steps in a gopher hole or something.
  — Pat Fitzmaurice, SI.com, 2 Aug. 2017
• Installing a barrier of gopher mesh to keep the pests out.
  — David Beaulieu, The Spruce, 11 Apr. 2026
• The gophers that have made your back yard the Penn Station of the gopher world?
  — Broti Gupta, New Yorker, 20 Jan. 2026
• Under the law, using traps to catch gophers, house mice, rats, moles and voles would still be permitted.
  — Los Angeles Times, 4 Sep. 2019
• This is a place that thumps with the energy of a thousand gophers turning over knowledge.
  — Nathan Heller, The New Yorker, 27 Feb. 2023
• Gophers' fans hope that imagination carries over to the field.
  — Ron Higgins, NOLA.com, 10 Aug. 2017
• These birds work alone, flying out solo in search of prey including snakes, fish, frogs, gophers or even small birds.
  — National Geographic, 17 June 2017
• Popping up like gophers, the piece encourages you to look at strangers with a whole new perspective.
  — Kat Herriman, CNT, 10 June 2017
• In this case, though, the heron was clearly taking the initiative, stalking the gopher like a pro.
  — Lisa Raffensperger, Discover Magazine, 10 Sep. 2014
• Schroeder’s team is used to taking on rural pests, like gophers, not urban invaders like rats.
  — Mark Dee, Idaho Statesman, 3 Sep. 2026
• In the stands, Bill Murray was looking for gophers beneath his seat.
  — Paul Daugherty, Cincinnati.com, 25 Jan. 2018
• Had the court split evenly, the dusky gopher frog’s lower-court victory would have been upheld.
  — Jess Bravin, WSJ, 27 Nov. 2018
• At Topo, in downtown Gilbert, the roof is flanked by a 7-foot-tall statue of a gopher.
  — Andi Berlin, The Arizona Republic, 11 Nov. 2021
• Line the bottoms with hardware cloth (not chicken wire) to exclude hungry gophers.
  — Nan Sterman, San Diego Union-Tribune, 6 Apr. 2024
• See nature in action as gopher tortoises burrow in the dunes and shorebirds wade in the surf.
  — Ana Pelayo Connery, Travel + Leisure, 16 June 2026
• Gray foxes keep gopher, vole, ground squirrel, rat and mice populations in check.
  — Nollyanne Delacruz, Mercury News, 29 Aug. 2025
• The case forbade the use of irrigation water to drown gophers.
  — Emily Cureton Cook, ProPublica, 26 June 2026
• Trapping is the only certain method of controlling moles and gophers.
  — Joan Morris, Mercury News, 10 Aug. 2026
• Protect new plants by planting into gopher baskets.
  — Nan Sterman, San Diego Union-Tribune, 2 May 2026
• As a result, the fields don’t look as good, and the holes left by ground squirrels and gophers were a hazard to children playing sports.
  — Phil Diehl, sandiegouniontribune.com, 26 Dec. 2017
• Thus, weed control is important for gopher control.
  — David Beaulieu, The Spruce, 11 Apr. 2026
• Their brother, Bill, steals the film as an unstable groundskeeper who is tasked with killing an errant gopher.
  — Randall Colburn, Entertainment Weekly, 28 May 2026
• The Cardinals practiced twice a week on the school’s hard, dry, gopher-friendly soccer field.
  — Mitch Stephens, San Francisco Chronicle, 30 May 2021
• Booker tills selectively to manage gophers and weed pressure, which keeps it at silver rather than gold.
  — Michelle Williams, Forbes.com, 27 May 2026
• These are important tools used for both feeding and building their dens and digging for other menu items such as mice, gophers, voles and shrews.
  — Ernie Cowan, San Diego Union-Tribune, 7 June 2026
• The Minnesota high-school boys’ hockey tournament is a hot ticket in the gopher state.
  — Will Connors, WSJ, 7 Mar. 2017